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that Mr. Osbaldeston would take one half and 

 Sebright the other, and so they made two casts 

 at once, but withal they were very unsuccessful 

 in bringing foxes to hand, killing, I am told, 

 only seven during their season. The hounds 

 were not fitted for the country, being too fast, 

 and from having previously hunted on grass, 

 they could not get along over the flints. 



Dick Burton was afterwards whip to Mr. As- 

 sheton Smith, at Tedworth, and Tom Sebright, 

 on leaving "the Squire," went to Earl Fitz- 

 william, and stayed with him for many years. 



An excellent portrait and biography of Mr. 

 Osbaldeston is to be found in the second 

 volume of Bailey s Magazine, p. 295, and there 

 is a notice of him in " Lilly white's Cricket 

 Scores," vol, i. p. 342. He may be said to have 

 been a good sportsman all round, excelling in 

 his day in every known field sport. 



Mr. Osbaldeston was succeeded by 1823 - 

 Mr. John Walker of Purbrook Park, walker and 



TT . n . -, 1 n -, the Hamble- 



His lather was a large ironfounder don. 

 at Rotherham, in Yorkshire, a very wealthy 

 man, who bought the Blythe estate, near 

 Don caster, of Colonel Mellish. 



Mr. Walker hunted the hounds himself, and 

 Hugh Jermyn, who came from Longstock, was 

 his whip. Mr. Walker was on the turf, and 



